Inspiration meets innovation at Brandweek, the ultimate marketing experience. Join industry luminaries, rising talent and strategic experts in Phoenix, Arizona this September 23–26 to assess challenges, develop solutions and create new pathways for growth. Register early to save.
More than 4,600 people residing in Skid Row don’t have a home, according to an early 2020 estimate from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Plenty of these individuals struggle with drug use, mental illness, physical disabilities and violence from intimate partners.
The situation has only gotten worse during the pandemic.
Life in the Downtown Los Angeles neighborhood is also the subject of a new three-part documentary titled The Tent Mender, which is available on IMDb TV, Amazon’s free streaming service.
Creator and director Laura Hand hopes the main message viewers take away from the project is that people living in Skid Row are, at their core, more or less the same as everybody else.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in